19Th Century Oil Painting Portrait Angelic Lady Follower Of Sophie Frémiet

Early 19th Century Oil Painting Portrait Angelic Young Cherry Lips With Blue Eyes Lady Follower Off Sophie Frémiet.
Subject front profile head portrait of a most beautiful Young Lady.
Her face and hair have been captured by the artist in such incredible detail, she conveys her elegance & beauty, with cherry red lips and blue eyes also curly bun hair.
Such master fine brushstroke control.
Unsigned.
Heavily influenced In the style follower of Sophie Frémiet.
So finely painted oil on canvas laid on board.
Set in a rather ornate later gilt frame.
Hanging thread on the back ready for home display.
Circa early 19th century.
Provenance high end auction also Whitgift galleries of Croydon labels verso.
Biography of Sophie Frémiet her Youth and art training
Born in Dijon, her father was the assistant curator of the city's museum, a patron of artists and a fervent Bonapartist. Sophie was taught by Anatole Devosge, a former pupil of Jacques-Louis David. Her father supported the work of a young Dijon sculptor, François Rude. In the aftermath of the second Bourbon Restoration in 1815, the Frémiet family, along with many other Bonapartists, left France for Brussels (now Belgium, then part of the newly created United Kingdom of the Netherlands). Here Sophie studied under another French exile, her former teacher's master, Jacques-Louis David. She worked as David's copyist and exhibited her own works in Brussels and in Antwerp. In 1820, her Belle Anthia was a great success at an exhibition in Ghent.
On 25 July 1821, Sophie married her father's former protégé François Rude. The couple would have only one child, Amédée, who died young in 1830 at the age of eight. In Brussels Sophie was a successful artist, receiving many commissions, including several for the former royal palace at Tervuren, lost in the fire that destroyed it. Her works were neoclassicist in style, largely mythological, although she produced a small number of religious paintings. Her portrayal of the nymph Pirene as mother in 1823 was awarded a gold medal at a show in 1824. It was sold at Sotheby's for USD 685,500 in 2022.
In 1826, the Rude family returned to France, settling in Paris. Here Sophie began to paint historical scenes. She served as the model for the female figure representing the Genius of War her husband's frieze The Departure of the Volunteers (also known as La Marseillaise), which forms part of the Arc de Triomphe. François Rude died in 1855, and Sophie devoted the rest of her life to exhibiting and publicising her husband's work.
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Condition report.
Offered in fine used condition.
Good condition to the painting surface, having signs of overpainting only visible under UV light, light craquelure but paint is all stable, frame is also in good order with some wear, scuffs, various dust commensurate with usage & age.
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Dimensions in centimetres of the frame approximate

High (49cm)
Wide (40cm)
Depth (4.5cm)